Lacking slack - Crossword Clue

Below are possible answers for the crossword clue Lacking slack.

4 letter answer(s) to lacking slack

TAUT
  1. pulled or drawn tight; "taut sails"; "a tight drumhead"; "a tight rope"
  2. subjected to great tension; stretched tight; "the skin of his face looked drawn and tight"; "her nerves were taut as the strings of a bow"

5 letter answer(s) to lacking slack

TENSE
  1. a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time
  2. become stretched or tense or taut;
  3. become tense, nervous, or uneasy; "He tensed up when he saw his opponent enter the room"
  4. cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious;
  5. in or of a state of physical or nervous tension
  6. increase the tension on; "alternately relax and tense your calf muscle"; "tense the rope manually before tensing the spring"
  7. pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in `beat')
  8. taut or rigid; stretched tight; "tense piano strings"

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All wound up
Almost all of cricket team getting Home Counties contract
Anxious
Anxious for the future, say
… nervous energy, after 10s
Brace, in a way
By the sound of it, worked in education, far from relaxed
Causing anxiety decades before EU’s beginning
Drawn tight
Earnings drained after tax returns in future?
Edgy
English 101 subject
Ex-lax?
Fully stretched
Having no play
High-strung
In danger of snapping
In need of a massage, may
In need of a rubdown
It may be perfect
It may be present
Jeer with any number leaving stressed
Jittery
Jittery Poles protected by supporter on course
Jumpy
Keyed up
Lacking play
Language study topic
Like a game overtime
Like a tie game in overti
Like a trampoline's surfa
Like guitar strings
Like school pupil sounding unrelaxed
Like sudden-death playoff
Maybe past worrying
Nail-biting
Needing a massage, say
Needing kneading?
Nervous
Not at all relaxed
Not easy
Not relaxed
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Noun concerning verbs
On edge
Past, present or future
Perfect, e.g.
Pluperfect, e.g.
Present or past, for example
Present, e.g.
Present, for example, in
Pulled tight
RC men not as desperate to see RC receptacle
Reportedly, old red wines must be strained
Rigid
Soundly instructed, not slack
Speaker's educated and stiff
Stiff
Strained
Strained sound of rebuke muffling answer
Stressed
Stressful
Stressful past, perhaps
Stretched
Stretched tight
Stretched tight, rigid
Stretched to the limit
Strung tightly
Suspenseful
Taut
Tense
Tense, as is pupil in audition
Tense, gave instruction in speech
Tensed
Tied up in knots
Tight
Tight as a drum
Tightly drawn
Tightly stretched
Tightly strung
Unbending
Under emotional pressure in past?
Under tension
Unloose
Unrelaxed
Uptight
Very strong, but not in past or present, say
What a will, e.g., may in
What may be perfect figure with statue's outline
Without slack
Without wrinkles
Worked up
Wound up

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